Dan Fernandez's Blog
Evangelism - Developer and Platform Evangelism
Amusing job "requirements"
Edit: Our CRM team says this job posting doesn't belong to them I got sent this recently from a...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/27/2005
Object Test Bench (VS 2005)
Object Test Bench is a new Visual Studio 2005 feature that helps you understand objects at Design...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/26/2005
UK Times Google Telephone Service
Taken from: https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1454225,00.html Google gears up for a...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/24/2005
More Music for Developers!
DJ Bolivia, whom I blogged about earlier, has released the final volume of the three part series...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/10/2005
Your Opinion Wanted: Master Pages
Brian Goldfarb wants to know what the best way to create master page templates for you is. Let him...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/09/2005
VS 2005 Code Snippets for WSDL
[Aside: Can you tell I'm cleaning out my blog queue? I'm on a productivity rampage, only 46 more...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/07/2005
Scott Wiltamuth is blogging
Scott Wiltamuth, the Product Unit Manager of the C# team and one of the designers of the C# language...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/07/2005
Overview of Visual C# 2005 Features
It took a small miracle to get this up (you don't want to know), but please cruise through the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/07/2005
Russian Dolls and Google Image mods
Thank you Chris Sells :) In his post, Chris asks whether all of the features shown in this demo will...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/07/2005
Update: Generics and CLS Compliance
For those of you who missed this, the BCL Team officially announced that Generics for the .NET...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/07/2005
Framework vs Tool
This handy Channel9 post shows how you can create XML Web services using Visual C# 2005 Express...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/07/2005
Anders Hejlsberg on TheServerSide.net
For those of you who haven't seen this, TheServerSide.NET interviewed Anders Hejlsberg, chief...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/06/2005
Restart
Happy holidays to all, I'm back from a well-rested vacation and looking forward to taking on the new...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 01/06/2005
Microsoft Acquires anti Spyware company (edited per suggestion)
It's about time, spyware is nasty and I've had to clean way too many computers lately. Read the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 12/16/2004
November CTP is now available for MSDN Subscribers
The November CTP (Community Tech Preview) is now available for download for MSDN subscribers. The...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 12/13/2004
Caffeine is the internet economy's life blood
Caffeine is the internet economy's life blood. Yeah, that's a bold statement, but when your entire...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 12/09/2004
SD Times: C# Gets Sharper
I'm still way behind, but here's an article by Jennifer DeJong on the next version of C#. I am of...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 12/06/2004
Eric describes his Marriage Proposal in C#
In case you haven't seen this, Eric Maino, a lead Student Ambassador, writes C# code to describe his...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 12/06/2004
Just Released - Music To Code By Volume 2: "Memory Leak"
DJ Bolivia, whom I blogged about earlier, just released Volume 2, download or start streaming it...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 12/06/2004
Music to Code By
In my previous post on Music, Seattle, and the Web, my loyal blog readers (I still respect you all...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/17/2004
Spec# for Visual Studio .NET 2003
From the research web site: The Spec# programming system is a new attempt at a more cost effective...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/16/2004
Visual Studio 2005 Community Integration FAQ
In the Visual Studio Connections keynote, I demonstrated the new features for finding and sharing...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/16/2004
Connections in Vegas
I'm in Vegas this week for Connections. Connections is a 3-part conference covering ASP.NET, Visual...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/09/2004
Following the progress of the US Election
I officially voted today, but I avoided the lines by using an absentee ballot. It really is the way...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/02/2004
Show me some E&C!!
There's been a lot of discussion on C# Edit and Continue, and I thought I would try and share some...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/20/2004
Visual Studio 2005 Express October Community Tech Preview now available
The October Community Tech Previews for Express are now up on MSDN for download. Before you do...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/18/2004
Article on Visual C# 2005 - Edit and Continue
The good folks at MSDN have posted an article by 3Leaf that walks through Edit and Continue in...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/18/2004
Summer of Express Contest Winners Announced!
After some really tough judging, we officially have the Summer of Express contest winners! There...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/18/2004
Edit and Continue in Visual C# 2005!!
Soma and Jay have blogged about this already, but Edit and Continue support will be added to Visual...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/15/2004
Create "Notepad" in 12 minutes in this tutorial
Okay, I admit that it's not as fully featured as Notepad, but if you want to learn about some of the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/12/2004
Code Snippets, XML Features and Debugger Visualizers for VS 2005
Here are some new articles that you might be interested in on MSDN Investigating Code Snippet...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/12/2004
Brian Keller on J#/JLCA/and MS/Sun agreement
Check out the interview, lots of good stuff. There's also lots of good discussion on...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/07/2004
Tony Goodhew parlays his wisdom on Orcas and other slow moving mammals
Tony Goodhew talks about Visual Studio "Orcas" (the version after VS 2005) on Channel9. I only wish...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/07/2004
ASP.NET Canonicalization Vulnerability
ASP.NET developers should be aware of the ASP.NET canonicalization vulnerability. More information...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/07/2004
Back in the blogging seat
My arm's better and I'm stupid enough to start playing hockey in two weeks. Lots of stuff to catch...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/07/2004
I have 0 Gmail accounts to give away
**Make that 0 five minutes later Send requests via my contact link, first come, first serve.
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/24/2004
Summer of Express contest entries are coming in
Cool stuff....The first couple of entries are starting to trickle in for the Summer of Express...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/05/2004
Debugger issues Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1
Min's got the list of debugger issues with Whidbey/Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1.
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/05/2004
Mac Developers using C#
Jeff McManus, eBay evangelist points out that C#/Mono was in the top five dev tools for Mac. It's...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/05/2004
Music - Seattle and on the Web
Ouch, this morning I experienced the pain Cyrus felt recently, I had to listen to 80's music for the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/05/2004
Is Ed Kaim obsessed?
Lately Ed can't stop blogging about me, Dan Can't Stand The Heat, and Isn't My Boss Funny?. I think...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 08/02/2004
Whiteboard with Anders (this time it's up for good)
I blogged about how this was up a while ago, but it's now officially back up and should hopefully be...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 07/30/2004
Channel9 - Anders Hejlsberg - Programming Data in C# 3.0
Anders talks about some of the data integration capabilities coming for C# 3.0 in this Channel9...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 07/27/2004
Pulling Images from Google using C# Express
*** Updated Jan 23, 2006 *** I finally got around to updating this for the final release of Visual...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 07/26/2004